Grief & Suicide Terms

Grief & Suicide Terms: Q & R

Grief & suicide terms, words and phrases are often used by crisis counselors and others in the health-care field. You can study these and/or copy them to your dictionary.

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Q
Quality of life	Relative state of individual well-being/functioning.
QPR	"Question, persuade, and refer"; suicide prevention program (QPR Institute).


R
Rational suicide	Presumption of reasonable choice by the terminally ill.
Reactive depression	Identified as linked to a particular situation or life event; acute.
Reasonable care	The average standard of a clinician's profession.
Reasons for dying	Set of faulty, self-biased beliefs that may be voiced by a suicidal individual.
Rebirth suicide	Completion as strategy to "start over" or become something else.
Receptor	Target of a neurotransmitter.
Reconstruction	Bereaved's recasting of past events or relationships linked to lost loved one.
Recovery guilt	Discomfort with feelings of happiness or peace of mind after loss.
Refractory	Resistant or unresponsive to treatment or intervention.
Relative risk	Ratio of at-risk to non-risk individuals in a group.
Remission	Period of temporary abatement of symptoms in an ill individual.
Repeater	Individual with history of suicide attempts.
Residential program	Alternative to hospitalization, homelike supportive care setting.
Respite suicide	Completion to escape disappointment or to relieve pain or stress (Tanney).
Respondent suicide	Suicide survivor suicide attributed to "joining" the initial victim.
Rescue	Successful intervention in a suicide attempt.
Rescue fantasy	Belief that some suicidal individuals expect to be saved.
Rescuing	Increasingly zealous efforts by clinician to prevent completion by a chronically suicidal individual (Gabbard).
Revenge suicide	See message of anger.
Reunion suicide	Completion related to death of a loved one or wish to join her/him (Wohl).
Rewired	Refers to negative change in brain structure due to abuse, drugs, or other trauma.
Right to die	Individual self-determination of when and how to die.
Right to suicide	View that an individual may rationally choose to end their life.
Risk	Exposure or vulnerability to harm, disease, or death.
Risk factor	Attribute associated with the likelihood of suicide.
Risk management	Effort to lessen exposure to liability or an adverse event or outcome.
Risk reduction	Individual behavior change to lessen risk/exposure.
Ritualistic suicide	See obligatory suicide.
Role loss	Personal identification (e.g., being a spouse) lost due to death.
Rule of double effect	Balancing good acts/intentions with foreseeable bad outcomes of an action.
Rule of thirds	1/3 recover completely; 1/3 improve with treatment; 1/3 remain chronic or unresponsive.
Rural suicide	Incidence of suicide in non-urban/non-suburban areas.

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